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Amazon announced Wednesday that it has ordered full seasons of five pilots, including a Philip K. Dick adaptation, a magazine show inspired by one of the nation's most esteemed publications and two children's programs. Pilots getting a greenlight are "The Man in the High Castle," "The New Yorker Presents," "Mad Dogs," "Just Add Magic" and "The Stinky & Dirty Show." "These new series, including our first docu-series, are some of our most ambitious to date and I’m looking forward to their premieres in the future,” said Roy Price, vice president of Amazon Studios, in...

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Amazon announced Wednesday that it has ordered full seasons of five pilots, including a Philip K. Dick adaptation, a magazine show inspired by one of the nation's most esteemed publications and two children's programs.
Pilots...

If you watched the Golden Globes last month, you might remember co-host Amy Poehler joking that Wes Anderson, a filmmaker known for his meticulous, fanciful style, had arrived at the ceremony on "a bike made of antique tuba parts." The camera...

The global love affair with American popular culture was on full display – albeit in vastly different ways – in the fall 2015 collections of Opening Ceremony and Tommy Hilfiger presented Sunday night and Monday morning respectively.
Hilfiger’s...

On Tuesday, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming eight-episode revival of the cult indie comedy "Wet Hot American Summer," officially confirming the participation of virtually the entire cast of the original movie.
On...

These scenes began flashing through my mind just as the Screen Actors Guild Awards began announcing nominations for performance by a cast in a motion picture:
"Birdman" — actors in constricted spaces using dressing rooms and winding corridors...

She played Ben Affleck's wife in the Academy Award-winning film "Argo" and the object of Zac Efron's affection in the film adaptation of "The Lucky One." But Taylor Schilling did not find fame until she put on an orange prison jumpsuit...

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Can you hear the hair?
On billboards and bus ads across Los Angeles, the curly locks of Gustavo Dudamel often seem to be in motion as the conductor strikes a pose of musical ecstasy.
In "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in...

"What have you seen?" "What have you liked?" "What should I see?" "What's been good this year?"
These are not uncommon lines of everyday dialogue at this time of year, whether you're in the film business or not....

"The chief enemy of creativity," Pablo Picasso once said, "is good sense."
He might have added that it doesn't get on so well with healthy living or emotional well-being either. The birth pangs of art have been a staple of the...

Jason Schwartzman in "Listen Up Philip" plays a frosty, frothy, Faustian Philip Roth-ian narcissist novelist with such an acid tongue you'll wonder if someone has spirited away the usually sweet, self-deprecating actor and stashed him in a trunk...

The 2014 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Oct. 31. Release dates and other details, as compiled here by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
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My Old Lady
A down-on-his-luck New Yorker inherits a Parisian...

Wes Anderson sweats the details. All of them, all the time, to an extent that can be maddening. But not in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," where the writer-director's familiar style blends with a group of unexpected factors to create a magnificently...

It's another girl for "Saving Mr. Banks" actor Jason Schwartzman.
The quirky film star's rep confirmed the news to Us Weekly on Tuesday, with People magazine confirming the arrival with its own sources.
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Thursday brings the third-season return, on IFC, of Scott Aukerman's "Comedy Bang! Bang!" An often surreal and free-associating sketch show in the guise of a talk show, it is also a talk show within a sketch show — the one shading into the other...

Wes Anderson is about to do something he's never done: take a cruise on the Queen Mary 2.
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New series from "The X-Files" creator Chris Carter, popular mystery author Michael Connelly and actor-writer Jason Schwartzman are on their way to your computer, mobile devices and home TV.
Amazon has given the green light to six series...